Am I the only one who loves SGU?

I think that by the end of the series that getting home would have been a hope that had been abandoned. As the series went on the character's links to Earth were eroding, while their ties to each other were getting stronger and the profundity of the mission was starting to dawn on them. I think the AU flashbacks in Twin Destinies were especially telling. Chloe vowed to stay without even looking to see what Scott was doing, and Volker (who was going insane on the ship earlier on) almost looked like he had just had an epiphany, and was the second to volunteer.

I too like all three series although it's bee na while since I've seen SG1 and Atlantis. I have started rewatching Universe on DVD and I like it better in a condensed form, as with alot of serialized shows it runs better if you can see the entire series as a whole, not on a weekly basis.

It's not unreasonable for the Lucian Alliance to be a threat despite the technological differences.

I think the explanation is that while SGC has been collecting/deciphering Asgard/Ancient technology, the LA has been similarly scavenging technology from dead System Lords (Anubis/Baal/whatever)

Given the speed of hyperspace in the Stargate 'universe', it makes defending any planet virtually impossible. They showed how one of the attacks could go in Season 2. The only problem with their plan was they wanted the pilot to survive. Hard to defend against a cloaked ship with a bomb.

By following basic logic, the Lucian Alliance shouldn't be a threat to Earth, and that applies to their SG-1 appearances as well. The Lucian Alliance rely on Goa'uld Ha'taks, which we've seen on SG-1 can be destroyed in two shots by a puddle jumper. Earth has a fleet of BC-304s outfitted with advanced Asgard weaponry which can successfully take on an Ori warship. There is no way a Ha'tak should be able to stand up to a 304.

The whole "cloaked cargo ships are undetectable" is pure bullshit. Cloaked cargo ships were regularly detected in SG-1, Earth with Ancient and Asgard tech should have no problem doing the same.

But I guess this was just conveniently ignored for the sake of "creating drama."

The problem is that the Stargate franchise has made the classic blunder(one made by almost every major sci-fi franchise) of allowing ships to move really really fast. Without any thought given to the basic physical implications.

At around 3000 meters per second your accelerated mass will hit with roughly the force of its own mass in TNT.

At 86.6% of the speed of light your kinetic energy is equal to the rest mass. Which gives you the force of pure anti-matter. One gram of anti-matter plus one gram of matter will produce a roughly 43 kiloton blast. Say we take an average-ish human mass of 70 kilograms and use that as a relativistic weapon it will hit with the force of 201,620 Hiroshimas.

And a Hatuk or even Deathglider masses a lot more than that.

Anyone with a ship that can travel at a decent percent of lightspeed has the power to destroy civilizations.

According to the Atlantis episode Daedalus Variations the BC-304s can reach about 50% of lightspeed on their sublight engines. You only need to reach around 14% of lightspeed to become a relativistic weapon.

Plus, has it been shown what happens when an object in hyperspace blows through a planet?

The whole "cloaked cargo ships are undetectable" is pure bullshit. Cloaked cargo ships were regularly detected in SG-1, Earth with Ancient and Asgard tech should have no problem doing the same.

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It's not bullshit, it makes perfect sense given what we've seen. To my knowledge cloaked cargo ships have only ever been detected twice in franchise history. Once by Anubis with with Ancient technology, and again by Zipacna when he'd already detected it coming out of hyperspace and had a fleet above the planet, and even then he only found it by scanning for atmospheric disturbances - not something practical on Earth.

Plus, has it been shown what happens when an object in hyperspace blows through a planet?

Yeah, its all magic I guess.

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The question itself is nonsensical. If an object is in hyperspace then it's travelling through hyperspace, it's not travelling through anything in normal space. Also, I think you'll find hyperspace has as much basis in real science as warp drive does, if not more so.

The question itself is nonsensical. If an object is in hyperspace then it's travelling through hyperspace, it's not travelling through anything in normal space. Also, I think you'll find hyperspace has as much basis in real science as warp drive does, if not more so.

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Unless you have a deeper understanding of Minkowski space equations than I(admittedly a mere layman) you're arguing a point that neither of us know anything about or can dogmatically support. Assuming that hyperspace is somehow completely divorced from normal space is a pretty huge leap to make when neither of us knows anything about the actual mathematics involved.

As to hyperspace and warp drive(Alcubierre drive) both are speculative and hypothetical. So while "magic" might not be exactly the right descriptive word, it is not entirely the wrong word either.